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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

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How is that ejection "crap?" He threw the elbow with intent. I don't think Douglass was doing anything other defenders don't do. The elbow came up, he meant to catch the kid in the neck or face, so he should be tossed. Read: Manny Harris earlier in the year. In Manny's case it was unintentional, not out of frustration, and generally reasonable except the guy was up in his face.

Bye Oglesby. The only issue I have with it is the guy was sucking it up so I kinda hoped he'd stick around.

The first few times I saw it I actually thought he shouldn't have been ejected. Watching it again when they came back from commercial and it was clear he brought the elbow up, pulled it back and aimed straight for the head. Absolutely the right call.

I don't think the intentional foul call was bad, but the ejection seems a bit much. Anyone that has played basketball has certainly done as much as what Oglesby did, especially when being held while trying to cut.

Why was it just an intentional foul as opposed to a flagrant like they gave Manny? I understand that there was ultimately no difference. I am a football guy and only played organized bball for fun, not out of passion. I don't know the rules that well, so what is the difference then?

...and had no clue what happened until my buddy who was watching at home texted me and told me about the play. I turned to the guy next to me to ask him if he'd seen it and he said he thought it was a shove.

Now that I've heard all about it, does anyone know if there's video of the play yet on the web? I'm not sure if ESPN will show that as a highlight later on (not sure if they want to highlight a play perpetrated by what sounds like a thug)

I mean, you could call it "crap" in that the even that precipitated it was an uncalled foul on Douglass, and you can also argue that it was "harsh", but it was strictly following the rules: elbowing someone in the head is illegal, and Oglesby elbowed somebody in the head. I understand, personally, why the NCAA throws people out for this without considering intent - having kids get hit in the face with elbows is an unequivocably bad thing - maybe if it's punished harshly, they'll be careful.

"I was coming off a screen. I didn't even think about it; I just reacted, I hit him and I caught him with my elbow," said Oglesby, his orange warm-up jersey raised over his head. Oglesby was slumped forward, his emotions becoming audible in a deathly quiet locker room.

"It was the most embarrassing sequence I've ever been a part of," said Oglesby, who couldn't hold back the tears anymore. "I lost my head. I was coming off a screen and I caught him pretty good."

"I embarrassed my team. I embarrassed my coach. I embarrassed my family. I wish I could go back. You know I'm not that type of kid," Oglesby said. "I was sitting back here praying they would make a comeback and hoping they would. I'm sorry."